• Question: why should I vote for you?

    Asked by Jadeyxxx to Alison, Hannah, Jonny, MarthaNari, Paul on 15 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by Lucy, shah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, emmylicious, ChickenNugNugs, soph-a-loaf-of-bread.
    • Photo: Paul Brack

      Paul Brack answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      In the words of Scar from the Lion King, ‘Vote for me, and you will never go hungry again!!!!’
      More seriously, I think it’s really important that we talk to people and help them get interested in and excited about science when they are young, so that’s why I want to do chemistry workshops in Primary schools.

    • Photo: Jonny Brooks-Bartlett

      Jonny Brooks-Bartlett answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      Because I want to teach people about crystallography. It’s been said that crystallography is the most important science of the 20th century that no one has heard of. I think it’s very true. Crystallography allowed us to see and understand things that we had never ever seen or understood before and I want to show and tell people about it.

    • Photo: Alison Whitaker

      Alison Whitaker answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      Well, I had a long think about what to do if I won the money. I was involved in a dancing statistics Youtube project a few years ago and we got over 100 000 views, I’d love to run another project and reach out to so many people again. Visualising some of the concepts I work with can be tricky (and boring for lots of people). I want to show that they aren’t boring and can unlock lots of interesting things, it’s just that learning them from a textbook or being told about them in a classroom isn’t always the best way to really understand them!

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